Book author Gerald Jampolsky said this adage, "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions." Forgiving and forgetting is a great help to someone's life. It isn't healthy to hold on to the past. You will never move forward if you still stuck in something that happened in history. I felt like my past defines me, but it doesn't. What defines me is my character, not my past. The one and only thing I want in life more than money and possessions are to move on from the past and forgive my transgressors.
When I was a young girl (I don't know what age it started) all the way till I was 12 years old, one of my cousins had molested and raped me. Then, on top of that when I turned 12, my "best friend" had told the whole school about the situation with my cousin. I was humiliated in front of the whole school. Everyone knew me then, so everyone knew. From that point on, I was in detriment. I felt that I was alone and nobody was there for me, so therefore I didn't tell or do anything to anybody. I needed someone there for me, to bolster me up; for me to lean…show more content… I was in a crevice between the past and present for a long time. I learned that it isn't good to hold grudges on people because that is holding me back, not them. It's not healthy or attractive either. I don't want to feel I'm in incognito mode anymore when I have a whole house full of people who love and care about me. I feel like, even now, everyone can see all my blemishes, like there out in the open for everyone to see. Last but not least, I want to be able to trust people again. I don't like the fact that I feel like I can't trust people I love and care about, because I don't want to be hurt again. I don't want to preclude myself from the world
